A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel is alternately baffled and terrified, in the latter case by the apparent approach of a steam train.
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Először találkoznak vidéken a vetítőgéppel Trailer
The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures Trailer
United Kingdom 01 October 1901
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1901 Robert W. Paul, Paul's Animatograph Works.
